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	Kam Air - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Kam Air (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Kam Air is the first privately owned passenger airline in Afghanistan.
		In September 2004 the Antonov AN24 operated by Kam Air slewed off the runway while landing at Kabul slightly injuring some of the 27 passengers aboard, but the plane was not damaged.
		The Boeing 737 flown by Kam Air vanished from radar screens on 3 February 2005 as it approached Kabul airport (on a flight from Herat) in poor weather, sparking a massive search operation for the 96 passengers and eight crew.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Kam-Air.html (258 words)

	9news.com \| News \| Snow in Kabul complicates search for missing Afghan jetliner with 104 people aboard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The Kam Air Boeing 737-200 took off Thursday from the western city of Herat bound for Kabul, but was unable to land because of poor visibility.
		The country's air force is in charge of the Kabul airport as part of the NATO peacekeeping mission.
		Kam Air was the first private airline in post-Taliban Afghanistan and made its maiden flight on the Kabul-Herat route in November 2003.
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	FirstCoast News.com - Print Article
		The Boeing 737-200 flown by Kam Air, post-Taliban Afghanistan's first private airlines, vanished from radar screens on Thursday afternoon as it approached Kabul airport in poor weather, sparking a massive search operation for the 96 passengers and eight crew, at least 21 of them foreigners.
		Kam Air made its maiden flight on the Kabul-Herat route in November 2003.
		Its mainly domestic flights using leased Boeing and Antonov planes are popular with wealthy Afghans and also are used by aid and reconstruction workers.
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	Webshots AP News Headlines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The Kam Air Boeing 737-200 vanished from radar screens Thursday afternoon as it approached Kabul airport, sparking a massive search operation for the 96 passengers and eight crew members.
		There was no indication that the Kam Air Boeing 737-200, which was arriving from the western Afghan city of Herat, was hijacked or brought down by a bomb, Defense Ministry spokesman Gen. Mohammed Zahir Azimi said earlier Saturday.
		Kam Air said the eight-member crew was composed of six Russians and two Afghans.
	daily.webshots.com /content/ap/current/h64556919.html (533 words)

	CBS News \| Afghan Crash Killed All On Board \| February 8, 2005 13:00:24
		The tail part of the crashed Afghan Kam Air Boeing 737 lies on the snowy mountain of Chaperi, 19 miles southeast of Kabul.
		The Boeing 737 operated by Kam Air, Afghanistan's first post-Taliban private airline, vanished from radar screens on Thursday after it approached Kabul airport in a blizzard from the western city of Herat.
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	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2005/02/03/world/main671642.shtml (595 words)

	Aircraft Crashes
		Korean Air Boeing 747 jetliner exploded from bomb planted by North Korean agents and crashed into sea, killing all 115 aboard.
		Air France Concorde jet en route to N.Y. crashed into a hotel after taking off from Charles de Gaulle airport near Paris; all 109 aboard and 4 on the ground were killed; first Concorde jet to crash since the plane went into commercial service in 1976.
		Afghan Kam Air, Boeing 737, bound to Kabul crashed in the mountains, killing 104.
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	Troops Start Moving Afghan Plane Crash Bodies - International Air News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Bad weather and the steep terrain had prevented recovery of bodies of the passengers and crew of a Kam Air Boeing 737 from the 3,300 metre (11,000 foot) Shapiri Ghar mountain since it crashed there on February 3, killing all on board.
		A Kam Air official identified her as a Russian flight attendant, but did not give her name.
		Officials of Kam Air, Afghanistan's only private airline, said after the crash the 737 had been turned away from Kabul Airport, which has only limited landing aids, because of heavy snow.
	www.air-news.info /content/view/188/39 (538 words)

	Printable Version (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The Boeing 737-200, flown by Kam-Air, post-Taliban Afghanistan's first private airline, vanished from radar screens Thursday afternoon as it approached Kabul airport in a snowstorm, sparking a massive search operation for the 96 passengers and eight crew, at least 24 of them foreigners.
		Kam Air began flying in November 2003, and its flights on leased Boeing and Antonov planes are popular with wealthy Afghans and also used by aid and reconstruction workers.
		U.N. staff are banned from using Kam Air or Ariana.
	www.picayuneitem.com /articles/2005/02/05/news/10plane.prt (555 words)

	Afghan crash search could take weeks as first bodies found (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The tail of the doomed plane with the Kam Air logo could be seen on the top of the mountain while a piece of debris that looked like the engine was visible further down on the other side, an AFP reporter said.
		Kabul is surrounded by mountains and presents a challenge to pilots, although officials have said a low visibility landing system had been operating at the city's airport for the past month and a half.
		Kam Air is the first privately run Afghan airline and was launched in November 2003 with a fleet comprising a Boeing 767, a Boeing 727, an Antonov 24 and the Boeing 737 which crashed.
	www.turkishpress.com /news.asp?ID=36958 (776 words)

	NewsFromRussia.Com Boeing 737 with 104 people on the board hasn’t found yet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The Kam Air english.pravda.ru/accidents/2003/03/06/44125.html ' target=_blank>Boeing 737-200 took off Thursday from the western city of Herat bound for Kabul, but was unable to land because of poor visibility.
		A NATO spokeswoman said no wreckage had yet been found and air operations were being hampered by poor weather and snow, but between 80 and 100 ground troops had been sent out to scour the area where the plane is thought to have crashed, tells Reuters.
		A Sudanese air force bombardment of villagers in Darfur this week killed or wounded almost 100 people, a UN spokeswoman said Friday, calling the bombing a major violation of a fragile ceasefire in the conflict-torn region More details...
	english.pravda.ru /accidents/2005/02/05/58108.html (1796 words)

	Afghan wreckage found - PittsburghLIVE.com
		The Boeing 737-200, flown by Kam-Air, vanished from radar screens Thursday afternoon as it approached Kabul's airport in a snowstorm.
		Kam Air, which began flying in November 2003, is Afghanistan's first post-Taliban airline.
		Its flights -- on leased Boeing and Antonov planes -- are popular with wealthy Afghans and also are used by aid and reconstruction workers.
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/terrorism/oneyearlater/s_300852.html (628 words)

	CBS News \| No Survivors At Afghan Crash Site \| February 8, 2005 11:50:44
		The Boeing 737-200, flown by Kam Air, Afghanistan's first post-Taliban private airline, vanished Thursday as it approached Kabul airport in a snowstorm from the western city of Herat.
		One man brandished a tattered Kam Air ticket he said he found in a nearby village.
		Afghan officials say air traffic controllers lost contact with the plane just after it was given permission to land.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2005/02/08/world/main672398.shtml (870 words)

	gulfnews.com: World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The Boeing 737 operated by Afghanistan's only private airline, Kam Air, crashed last Thursday on the 3,300 metre Shapiri Ghar mountain, about 30 km southeast of Kabul.
		Kam Air officials said after the crash the aircraft was turned away from Kabul International Airport due to heavy snow.
		Kam Air deputy director Fada Mohammad Fadayi said yesterday that though the weather had been cloudy and visibility poor it was difficult to say what caused the crash until an investigation by the government and representatives of countries whose nationals were on the plane was complete.
	www.gulf-news.com /Articles/WorldNF.asp?ArticleID=151118 (564 words)

	Irish Examiner > Breaking News > Wreckage of jet found in mountains
		The Kam Air Boeing 737-200 vanished from radar screens on Thursday afternoon as it approached Kabul airport, sparking a massive search operation for the 96 passengers and eight crew, about 19 of them foreigners.
		There was no indication that the Kam Air Boeing 737-200, which was arriving from the western Afghan city of Herat, was hijacked or brought down by a bomb, Defence Ministry spokesman Gen. Mohammed Zahir Azimi said.
		Hundreds of Afghan and Nato forces began the search early Friday, but were hampered in their efforts by thick snow and freezing fog enveloping the tall mountains which ring the Afghan capital.
	www.irishexaminer.com /breaking/story.asp?j=163894144&p=y63895xy6&n=163895022&x= (358 words)

	IOL: Soldiers find remains at Afghan crash site
		Deadly trap: The tail part of the crashed Afghan Kam Air Boeing 737 lies on the snowy mountain of Chaperi, 30 kilometres south-east of Kabul.
		The Boeing 737 operated by private Afghan airline Kam Air crashed on the snow-covered 3 300-metre Shapiri Ghar mountain, about 30km south-east of Kabul on Thursday.
		Kam Air opened as Afghanistan's only private airline in November 2003.
	www.iol.co.za /index.php?set_id=1&click_id=123&art_id=qw110777364092B212 (748 words)

	USATODAY.com - NATO forces, police struggle to reach airliner wreckage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Fog, freezing temperatures and up to eight feet of snow thwarted efforts to reach the crash site of the Kam Air Boeing 737-200, which was found Saturday about 20 miles east of Kabul.
		The plane flown by Kam Air, post-Taliban Afghanistan's first private airline, vanished from radar screens Thursday while approaching Kabul airport in a snowstorm from the western city of Herat.
		Kam Air began flying in November 2003, and its flights are busy with Afghans and foreign reconstruction workers.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2005-02-06-afghan-plane_x.htm?POE=NEWISVA (888 words)

	CTV.ca - All aboard Afghan airliner said killed - CTV News, Shows and Sports -- Canadian Television
		Armored German and Italian vehicles head to the Chaperi area to search the wreckage of an Afghan airliner Kam Air Boeing 737-200, which crashed into a mountain, southeast of Kabul, Afghanistan.
		"The troops found that no one was left alive from the crash," said a statement from an Afghan government commission investigating the disaster, offering condolences to the victims' families.
		Kam Air resumed flying Tuesday, but one of its jets carrying 220 passengers turned away from the Afghan capital faced with the same conditions that accompanied last week's disaster.
	www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/print/CTVNews/1107890098869_103299298?hub=World&subhub=PrintStory (476 words)

	e-Ariana - Todays Afghan News
		The airport's radar was destroyed during the 25 years of war in Afghanistan and its air traffic is currently controlled by Bagram Air Base, the US-led coalition headquarters in the country.
		The spokeswoman told AFP she did not know if the move was linked to the fatal February 3 crash of a Kam Air Boeing 737, which was flying to Kabul from the western city of Herat when it struck a frozen peak near the capital.
		Investigators are still probing the cause of the disaster.
	www.e-ariana.com /ariana/eariana.nsf/allPrintDocs/58EB5CAEE2DF1F5287256FB200107798?OpenDocument (265 words)

	Institute for War and Peace Reporting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Now, a month after the disaster, 32 bodies are still missing on the snow-covered mountain range where the plane came down.
		The Kam Air Boeing 737 lost contact with air traffic controllers on its approach to Kabul airport on a flight from the western city of Herat, while preparing to land during a heavy snowstorm.
		Farid Paikar, deputy director of Kam Air, said hotel accommodation had been provided for 15 of those who lost dependants in the crash.
	www.iwpr.net /index.pl?archive/arr/arr_200503_163_1_eng.txt (861 words)

	DNA Tests To Identify Afghan Crash Dead
		The death toll from the February 3 crash of the Kam Air Boeing 737 had been revised from 104 to 105, to include an Afghan child whose name had not been on the passenger manifest, said ministry spokesman Zahir Azimy.
		The 23 year old 737 disappeared from radar screens while approaching Kabul after a flight from the western city of Herat.
		A manager of Phoenix Aviation, a United Arab Emirates-based firm which leased the 737 to Kam Air, said last month bad weather caused the accident, not any fault with the plane.
	news.airwise.com /story/view/1109885667.html (376 words)

	Afghan News Network - Printer Friendly Version (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		According to Gen. Zaher Azimi, a spokesman at the ministry of defense the fatal injuries took place when a team of Afghans were busy searching for the remaining bodies of the victims of the Kam Air Boeing 737 crash site.
		The spokesman for the ministry of defense, speaking to journalists on the 13th of March said the search for the dead had ended and the transporting of the 106 fatalities to the Army Medical Academy Hospital was complete.
		The plane crash on February 3rd near the Sirai mountain caused by poor visibility, near Band-e Ghazi, 30km (20 miles) east of the capital Kabul, is Afghanistan's worst air disaster.
	www.afghannews.net /printer.php?action=show&type=news&id=2192 (281 words)

	Investor's Business Daily: Breaking News
		CHICAGO (MarketWatch) -- Greek authorities have confirmed that all 121 passengers and crew aboard a Helios Airlines Boeing 737 perished in a fiery crash outside Athens -- the country's worst-ever air disaster and the deadliest anywhere so far this year.
		It is the second Boeing (BA) 737 to go down this year, following the February crash of one on the way from Herat to Kabul, Afghanistan.
		In that accident, a Kam Air plane slammed into a snowy Afghan mountainside with the loss of all 104 aboard.
	www.investors.com /breakingnews.asp?journalid=30940269&brk=1 (435 words)

	DefenseLINK News: Afghan National Army Assists in Plane Crash Aftermath
		The ANA was called up to support the rescue attempt of Kam Air 737-200 that crashed Feb. 4.
		Kabuly Qadeer, commander for 2nd Kandak (Battalion), 3rd Brigade, Afghan National Army, seated on the left in the command center at the base of the mountain where the crash occurred, and South Carolina Army National Guard Lt. Col.
		The ANA was called up to help support the rescue attempt for Kam Air 737-200 that crashed Feb. 4.
	www.defenselink.mil /news/Feb2005/n02142005_2005021408.html (1294 words)

	ABC News: NATO Troops Reach Wreckage of Afghan Plane (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		A NATO helicopter searching for an Afghan jetliner that disappeared during a snowstorm with 104 people aboard found what appears to be the wreckage of the plane Saturday February 5, 2005, in a area to the east of the Afghan capital, officials told the Associated Press.
		The Boeing 737-200, flown by Kam Air, Afghanistan's first post-Taliban private airline, vanished from radar screens Thursday afternoon as it approached Kabul airport in a snowstorm from the western city of Herat.
		If the fatalities are confirmed, it will be Afghanistan's worst air disaster.
	abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=476854 (491 words)

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